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Olsen Lake <br />Last Thursday, the shoreline of Nick Winkel's property and that of his <br />immediate neigbors was desecrated by a thick green slime with the <br />consistency of latex paint. This is the result of the Valley Branch Watershed's <br />discharge from the Olsen Lake Estates Pond which Lake Elmo has strongly <br />resisted. Lacking the evidence of long term damage, and faced with <br />estimates of the potential harmless results of the discharge, we could not <br />respond as forcefully as we would like. Now it is different, and while we <br />really regret the pollution, we do have something which helps our cause. <br />We have positive proof that lakes Demontreville and Olsen are separate <br />bodies of water, and that the dilution factors used in Barr engineering <br />estimates of the affect of the discharges are completely wrong. We will use <br />this information to object to the Valley Branch Water Management Plan, and <br />to draw the attention of the BSWR, the DNR, the PCA and the Corps of <br />Engineers to the results of unrestrained development in wetland areas, as <br />well as the ineffectiveness of theories on wetland mitigation. <br />For the record, I took the following Secchi disc water transparency readings <br />on Friday, August 12: <br />Lake Olsen: <br />Nick Winkel property Ift 8 ins. <br />"Usual" measuring site 1ft 9 ins <br />Hidden Bay lft 9 ins <br />Lake Demontreville: <br />"Usual" measuring site 5ft <br />Off Boat landing site 5 ft. <br />and yesterday, August 15, witnessed by Mr. Greg @tea 4 .,a.. <br />Lake Olsen: <br />Nick Winkel property <br />lft 9 ins. <br />